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Interesting Links: May 22nd, 2008

Crumbling Paper: Buster Brown, His Sideshow (strip #8)

Here’s a great example I scanned of Buster Brown from April 8, 1906 by Richard F. Outcault.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Buster Brown at Barnacle Press.

See the last Buster Brown strip at the Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Richard F. Outcault at lambiek.net.

See a Buster Brown original (with the Yellow Kid) at the Library of Congress website.

Read more about R.F. Outcault at Ohio State University’s website.

See examples of Outcault’s Yellow Kid at Ohio State University’s website.

Click here to read more about Buster Brown at Toonopedia.

Hear a radio program on the history of Buster Brown at npr.org.

Visit the website of the R.F. Outcault Society.

Read the Wikipedia entry on Buster Brown.

Read the Wikipedia entry on R.F. Outcault..

Read the Wikipedia entry on The Yellow Kid.

See the copyright application for the Yellow Kid at the Library of Congress website.

Read Outcault’s obituary from a 1928 Time Magazine.

Froggy the Gremlin (clip #6): Don’t Forget to Go To Church and Sunday School

That noise… that horrible, horrible, bleating noise before the hiyas set in…

Here Froggy abuses a fake Eye-talian man with suffocation and poisoning. I believe the fake Italian is the same man who played the fake Frenchman.

Andy concludes this clip with his standard closing… “don’t forget to go to church and Sunday school!” Andy, of course, doesn’t specify the religion he practices that condones summoning and cavorting with demonic frogs.

Warning: The below footage obviously contains insensitive ethnic depictions. If this sort of thing bugs you, you may not want to view it.

See an excerpt from an issue of Buster Brown Comics featuring Smilin Ed’s Gang aka Andy’s Gang courtesy of Stupid Comics here.

Visit froggythegremlin.com.

Read more about Andy Devine on Wikipedia.

Visit the grave of W.H. "Major" Ray aka Buster Brown here.

Interesting Links: May 21st, 2008

Crumbling Paper: Buster Brown (strip #7)

Here’s an example I scanned of Buster Brown from April 21, 1907 by Richard F. Outcault.

Click the image to view the full strip.

You can see a black and white version of this strip where tape does not mar the image at Barnacle Press here.

Click here to read more examples of Buster Brown at Barnacle Press.

See the last Buster Brown strip at the Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Richard F. Outcault at lambiek.net.

See a Buster Brown original (with the Yellow Kid) at the Library of Congress website.

Read more about R.F. Outcault at Ohio State University’s website.

See examples of Outcault’s Yellow Kid at Ohio State University’s website.

Click here to read more about Buster Brown at Toonopedia.

Hear a radio program on the history of Buster Brown at npr.org.

Visit the website of the R.F. Outcault Society.

Read the Wikipedia entry on Buster Brown.

Read the Wikipedia entry on R.F. Outcault..

Read the Wikipedia entry on The Yellow Kid.

See the copyright application for the Yellow Kid at the Library of Congress website.

Read Outcault’s obituary from a 1928 Time Magazine.

Froggy the Gremlin (clip #5): Froggy Whammies a Faux Frenchman

Having little stiff, immobile arms forced Froggy to evolve other ways to get things done. In addition to being a generally malicious bastard, Froggy also was able to possess people with mind-control, as we saw in the previous clip with him forcing a Andy to jam a creampuff in his gaping maw. We shall hereafter refer to this as Froggy “putting the whammy” on his victims.

Froggy’s preferred targets seem to have been people pretending an ethnicity not their own, it appears.

Here he is abusing a fake Frenchman. At least I think this guy is pretending Frenchness, although it could be that he is pretending to be someone pretending to be French.

So, please note: This clip contains someone pretending to be an ethnic stereotype or someone pretending to be someone pretending to be an ethnic stereotype. If this sort of thing offends you, you may not want to view it.

See an excerpt from an issue of Buster Brown Comics featuring Smilin Ed’s Gang aka Andy’s Gang courtesy of Stupid Comics here.

Visit froggythegremlin.com.

Read more about Andy Devine on Wikipedia.

Visit the grave of W.H. "Major" Ray aka Buster Brown here.

Interesting Links: May 20th, 2008

  • May 20, 2008: Do you understand what it means when your identity gets known?
  • Mike Western (1925-2008)
  • R.I.P. Rory Root
  • Illustration: Tenggren’s Small Fry and the Winged Horse
  • Cartoon Dialectics Vol 1 – New Edition
  • 50´s spanish sci fi paperbacks
  • The Slim Gaillard Vout-o-Reenee Dictionary